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GOEBBELS PROMISES WAR TO LAST GERMAN
Fanatical fight demanded by Nazi leader
Hitler pictured as Prussian king
LONDON (UP) – The German DNB News Agency reported today that Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels visited the Silesian front recently and reiterated that Germany would fight to the last man and never capitulate.
The Nazi leader acknowledged that the amount of Germany’s material equipment had reached a low stage, but argued that a fanatical fight by all the people behind Adolf Hitler would overcome the handicap.
Talks to home guard
Goebbels, according to DNB, made the visit to the Silesian front in Southwest Germany during the last few days and talked to members of the Volkssturm (home guard) and youth organizations at Goerlitz and Lauban.
The Nazi broadcast came almost simultaneous with other reports from the continent, indicating an increasing tension among the Germans, including the beleaguered Nazi High Command.
A Stars and Stripes dispatch from the Third Army front quoted German prisoners that Marshal Karl Gerd von Rundstedt had been ousted from the Western Front command and replaced by Field Marshal Walther Model. The prisoners described the shakeup as preparations for a last-ditch defense by the Nazis.
Tries to aid morale
An earlier DNB dispatch disclosed that Nazi officials had ordered all workers in evacuation areas to report immediately to military authorities. It also warned that “every person of military age” must carry identification papers.
Goebbels’ reported visit to Silesia was believed an attemnpt to bolster the morale of the German people facing the onslaught of the Soviet armies on the Eastern Front.
The Propaganda Minister attempted to portray Hitler as another “great king of the Prussians” with the ability to lead Germany to victory if the people remained behind him after setbacks as well as triumphs.
Goebbels claimed that the immediate danger of being overrun by the Red Army “no longer can frighten us” and said that instead of panic, the Russians now were meeting a unison of hundreds of thousands of German soldiers on the Eastern Front.
Battle in Munich
The Moscow radio, meanwhile, quoted reports from the German frontier that serious disturbances had broken out in Munich, with the town entirely surrounded by SS troops. The broadcasts claimed that shooting had occurred in eastern Munich.
A Berlin dispatch to the Stockholm Morgon-Tidningen said the German capital was being prepared for a final stand. Empty street and subway cars have been filled with stones and concrete and overturned at strategic street corners, the article said.
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JAPANESE RESISTANCE STARTING TO CRACK ON IWO
Marines split enemy force along coasts
Resistance appears to be diminishing
GUAM (UP) – Jap resistance on Iwo began to crack today as three Marine divisions tightened their stranglehold on two big enemy pockets along the north and east coasts.
The Marines widened their corridor between the two pockets and closed in on the enemy from the south, east and west in gains of up to several hundred yards in fierce fighting.
“Resistance during this morning appeared to be diminishing although the enemy continued to hold prepared strongpoints tenaciously and snipers were active,” Pacific Fleet headquarters announced in the first communiqué on the fighting on Iwo in some 36 hours.
In final stages
The announcement indicated that the 20-day-old campaign on Japan’s front doorstep was entering its final stages, with the end of organized resistance in sight.
However, the remnants of the original enemy garrison of 20,000 – now probably fewer than 4,000 – were battling to the death and more bloody fighting appeared in prospect before final victory.
The 3rd Division smashed ahead the last few hundred yards to the sea on the northeast coast yesterday, completely severing Jap troops on the north shore from those on the east.
Continuing the attack today, the 3rd Division had widened its hold on the northeast beaches.
Meet tough resistance
The Japs in the north were pinned between the 3rd Marines, in the center of the northeastern beaches and the 5th Division pressing along the northwest shoreline to within 1,000 yards of Kitano, northern tip of the tiny island.
The 4th Division, on the east coast, was meeting the toughest resistance in a frontal drive from the south against the main enemy pocket, but was hacking out limited gains.
The Japs launched a large-scale attempt to infiltrate the 4th Division’s lines with heavy mortar and sniper fire support Thursday night, but ran into a stonewall defense. A total of 564 enemy troops were killed, the communiqué said.
Blast Chichi Island
A small group of Jap planes approached Iwo early Friday, but retired without attacking, the communiqué said.
U.S. planes continued to strike at Chichi Island in the Bonins, north of Iwo.
Navy search Privateers bombed runways and other installations on Wake Island Friday, and attacks on Kusaie and Ponape in the Eastern Carolines and on the Palaus were carried out Thursday and Friday.